Emory Feller Honorary Garden

This is the beginning or the 2008 version of Emory Feller’s Honorary Garden. Mr. Feller has had a garden in this spot since 1941. Well, that’s the year they moved here; I’m not sure it was early enough in the season to plant that year. He planted a garden every year and he and Kathryn did lots of canning.

Last May, Emory had a stroke and has been unable to be here at home in Kendallville. His 96th birthday is July 21st and this year there will still be a garden, although not as elaborate as the years he was in charge.

His neighbor to the west is planting carrots and something else – I am going to have to check this out – and we are setting out tomato plants. Emory told Kathryn it would probably be okay to do so by May 15th – past the danger of frost time. Kathryn thinks three or four plants should provide us with all the tomatoes that we want to eat. I think I’ll put out some cherry or grape tomatoes as well.

We’ll be heading over to Albion to see him this afternoon – Mrs. Feller and I. Maybe I’ll print this picture off for him. I probably won’t take a picture of my tomato plants; I don’t have a green thumb and he would have to shake his head and say with a smile, “Ah, AmeliaJake . . . AmeliaJake . . . ”

Guess I’ll go read up on the care and nourishing of tomato plants in Northern Indiana gardens.

AMC – the new WGN

Last evening I looked at the TV listings and saw that Planet of the Apes was on American Movie Classics at 8 pm. At first I just made note of it and then it started to play around in my mind. That was a film from a time when we couldn’t fast forward to see a favorite scene, or play it over and over. We had one shot at it. “Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!” And one chance for the Statue of Liberty in the sand.

Anyway, I decided to watch it and set myself up a comfy little place to do so. Then, the station that started out with no commercials and went to some and then a lot, became today’s version of the WGN late show of the ’80’s. I made it through the first of the movie and sets of commercial “breaks” but zonked out before they  even set off for the Forbidden Zone.

AMC,  damn you. Damn you all to hell.